US EditionA Russian Botnet Is Using the Hungarian-Ukrainian Conflict to Spread Disinformation
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According to an investigative article, bots are, for example, spreading the idea that Zelensky called Viktor Orbán's voters backward.
Bot Blocker, a collective specializing in Russian disinformation, has detected a new disinformation campaign by a Russian network that was previously active during the Moldovan elections. This time, the bots are exploiting the Ukrainian-Hungarian conflict and spreading interconnected narratives on social media using fake videos featuring Western media logos. According to researchers, the Russian operation, dubbed “Matryoshka,” seeks to mass-prom…
According to the investigative journalist, the Russian military intelligence service may be behind the attack.
Attention! The Russian “Matryoshka” botnet has also joined the Hungarian election campaign with anti-Ukrainian fake news – this warning was published in large letters by Szabolcs Panyi, an investigative journalist at VSquare, who was the first to write that the Kremlin is actively preparing to interfere in the Hungarian parliamentary election – about which, incidentally, the National Security Committee also received a signal from foreign intelli…
The Matryoshka arrived with unprovoked attacks by Ukrainian refugees and fake Zelensky quotes, and Insider has already identified several spreading fake news.
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